
About 3,000 Pratt & Whitney machinists went on strike early Monday morning after most union members rejected the company’s final offer for wage and benefit increases. RTX [RTX], P&W’s parent company, said on Sunday in a message to members of the Connecticut International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) that no further meetings between the company and union are currently scheduled. The union said that P&W “failed to adequately address the membership’s top concerns about wage and retirement security…